My Corner

I sometimes sketch to improve my art

[mateuszo]

I got bit by a insect on the first day in the mountains…

Like last time I was here.. leg swollen almost..

Bloody insect 🦟

[mateuszo]

Always wash your vegetables and fruits before consuming them.

THAT includes bagged salad or other vegetables that is already “washed”. Don’t trust the words of the packing saying they are washed — wash them again!

And or soak them in white vinegar and clean water for a few minutes before cleaning them by laying them on a clean towel.

Strip parts of the vegetables that looks ruined or dirty.

Wash your hands with soap prior to cooking or handling food.

[mateuszo]

Just ate all the food that had to be cleared prior to our vacation

I am now more eggs than human and 5 percent surimi..

I am stuffed and full… I am going to have a long nap during the drive.

My partner asked me if I had used all the eggs and I said yes while cooking.

Then silently while watching me: *soft whisper with French accent while staring from behind* “good.. now eat it all..”

Me: “pardon?”

Them: “nothing — alright going.”

[mateuszo]

From the 14 of July in Paris

[mateuszo]

Vacation to the alps for me. Can’t wait to see the mountains again

⛰️

[mateuszo]

I am forbidden from eating bread provided prior to eating my dish…

Due to the inability to finish my plate if I ate one piece of bread.

So now whenever I find myself in a restaurant. I am facing a Frenchman staring me down across from me with severe disapproval when I take a piece of bread.

If I want dessert, I shouldn’t eat a starter and a main dish, only one of the two and then dessert.. and no bread.

I do still take that piece of bread out of disobedience though. Just one. While staring back with a smile.

The Frenchman across of me will regardless of the disappointment and disapproving stare still help by eating my food while lecturing me on my choices.

[frostedmagnolias]

Dress

c. 1884-1886

by Chauvet, France

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

[frostedmagnolias]

Day Dress

c. 1878-1879

Tessier & Sarrou

[mateuszo]

Occasionally, I get scam messages trying to convince me I am in need of comfort.

They desire my nonexistent support, attention and love. And finances.

I pity them. I too desire to acquire things that doesn’t exist.

(I do get plenty of love and attention.)

[cruel-hiraeth]

if you build “community” around hating other people, just know that the second you step out of line—regardless of your moral uprightness or the hypocrisy on their part—you’re the next person they’re going to tear to pieces.

[mateuszo]

I have a deep respect and interest in the different indigenous cultures of the Northern America. I did my studies in the 1800s USA and especially the westward expansion.

Tried to teach myself some signs of the First Nation sign language, mostly, “I am here making coffee.” And collected books on different languages from different groups as well as their culture.

Also made a map over most tribal areas by consulting various maps and tracking different paths, and checking history diaries. Tracked historical events and people. Lost and submerged settlements.

I did the project because I had too much time on my hands, and I wanted to see visually the locations and pathways. I wanted to give it over to organisation dedicated to northern American indigenous communities for history reasons, but withdrew the idea because I thought it wasn’t very important and it would weird them out.

My friend was surprised by the work as I could somehow trace their grandmother’s tribe precise location on the map.

That made me also partially I fear if released to the wrong people there would be looters come to try dig up stuff there. Full of regret and guilt I shoved it into my drawer.

It is still unfinished. And will remain so.

[mateuszo]

Received what appears to be a white scallop squash from my colleague.

Read it is an ancient heirloom variant that has been cultivated by the ingenious tribes in North America.

Must save the seeds! I love the shape. It is like a big white flower.

[mateuszo]

Learnt what bal des pompier … mortified and I will never look at firefighters here in France the same way. I was curious to go to one in our town, then I saw the videos of what it is on instagram.

Immediate regret and mortified.

Told my partner I will not be saved by a French stripper firefighter. I will refuse.

Their response; “not every firefighter is like this”

JE REFUSE !

[mateuszo]

Bon 14 juillet!

[wildshireberries]

Vu que la bastille c'est cook venez on prend le fort Boyard

[mateuszo]

Tant que je n’ai pas à manger à “chez Willy” quand j’y suis.

[mateuszo]

Bon 14 juillet!

[mateuszo]

Help the animals such as birds ! 🙏🏼— especially the swifts and swallows during the heatwave.

Don’t let the heatwave kill off our birds and other wildlife. We already experienced the slow death of birds throughout a few generations..

Put water out for hedgehogs, birds and other wildlife. They need help too!

Read somewhere that the poor baby swallows are jumping out of their nest to escape heat in Paris.

Please treat the wildlife like people too and give them food, shelter and water. We mustn’t forget them.

[mateuszo]

Nothing is more cute and fun than hearing a Frenchman struggling to speak because he got a stuffy nose.

He sounded muffled and struggling, could barely be understood due to the stuffy nose, then got grumpy by the cooing. Like muffled and distant complaining.

For me it showed that French is a nasal language. Took away his speech, it did — the stuffiness.